GET /haile — 200 OK

Hi, I'm Haile.

Web engineer. Cognitive science graduate. I build interfaces that make technical things feel intuitive.

// always learning. always building.

// endpoints

GET /haile/about

UC Berkeley, B.A. Cognitive Science. Now a web engineer at Slack building developer-facing experiences. I came to engineering through the human side — how people process information, form mental models, and navigate interfaces.

GET /haile/skills

JavaScript · HTML/CSS · React · TypeScript · Jekyll · Git · Cursor · Claude Code · Canva

GET /haile/now

Working on: Haile API v2 (this site). Building Hungry Highly — food, travel, and hosted dinners. Exploring ways to use my digital and analog tools. Currently at Slack.

POST /haile/contact

Reach out on LinkedIn.

GET /haile/stats 200 OK

{
  "role": "Web Experience Engineer",
  "company": "Slack",
  "degree": "B.A. Cognitive Science, UC Berkeley",
  "location": "Northern California",
  "countries_visited": 21,
  "currently_building": "haile-api-v2",
  "side_project": "@hungryhighly",
  "status": "shipping"
}

// experience

Slack

web_experience_engineer

Platform engineering — developer-facing web experiences, design systems, reusable components, and the tooling that makes other engineers faster.

ConsenSys

frontend_intern

Built decentralized application interfaces on the Ethereum blockchain.

UC Berkeley

cognitive_science

Studied the intersection of minds, machines, and human-computer interaction.

Medium

technical_writer

Wrote about web development, blockchain, and the journey of learning to code.

// projects

Haile API

jekyll github-pages css

My personal site structured as API documentation. Every page is an endpoint. Built to show how I think, not just what I've done.

Hungry Highly

food travel youtube

Food, travel, and hosted dinner series. Eating my way through cities and bringing people together over meals. The other half of eat curious.